"HUCK" BOYD—Republican candidate for governor of Kansas, discusses his campaign with Jane Lefebure, Prairie Village junior, and Madeline Wood, Eureka junior.
'Huck' Boyd Plans To Promote Kansas
"Kansas is not a good place to live." Is that what too many people believe?
McDill "Huck" Boyd, Republican candidate for governor of Kansas, says that unless Kansas dispels the myth that it is a "dust bowl," a land of wild Indians where Mat Dillon will take a shot at you, then Kansas will not be able to share in the nation's future prosperity.
Boyd spoke on the campus last night to the KU "Huck" Boyd for governor club.
If he were governor, Boyd said, "One of my main objectives would be to tell the Kansas story in an effective way so people would want to live in Kansas.
"TOO MANY OF OUR EDUCATED young people are leaving the state," Boyd said. This is because they do not believe there are opportunities or jobs here," he said. Industry does not want to locate in Kansas when their executives do not want to live here either. Consequently, job opportunities do not arise in Kansas, and young people leave, Boyd said.
To make Kansas an attractive place to live, Boyd said, he would concentrate on making adequate public services available, developing the state's recreational resources, and solving the problem of providing funds for education.
"We should not tax people for things they can do for themselves," Boyd said. But, if Kansas does not provide the services people cannot provide for themselves they will "not want to live in Kansas."
AFTER A SHORT talk, Boyd threw the meeting open to questions from the floor. He was asked by a student how he would go about telling the "Kansas story."
Boyd said as governor he could reach audiences that others couldn't reach. He said the Kansas Economic Development Commission would be a help. He said he believed the difference in the property tax level of this and bordering states could be adjusted so industry would be more inclined to locate in Kansas.
Boyd would also give attention to Kansas' mental health program.
Services that cannot be provided on the local level should be provided by the state. Services that state cannot provide should be provided by the federal government.
THIS CHAIN OF responsibility must be strengthened. Boyd said, "in order to erect a further barrier against federal control."
In an interview Boyd said his proposal to create a council of college students to advise the governor on Kansas problems has two objectives. First, he said, "It would get young people interested in the problems of state government. Second, young people who work on problems of government will get training that will make them better potential candidates for public office.
Thursday, Feb. 27, 1964
Besides, they would probably come up with some good programs, he said.
Boyd was asked if this council would be used as a check on what was being taught to students at the colleges and universities. Boyd said, "I have no such thought." This was not a layman's area, he said. "Students should be exposed to knowledge no matter what direction it comes from."
HE WAS ALSO ASKED what he thought of the legislature's approval last August of two amendments to the U.S. Constitution that would create a court of state judges that could review the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions and reverse them, and to stop federal supervision of state elections. (Seventeen state legislatures have ratified the amendments; 17 more are needed to make the amendments constitutional.)
Boyd said, "I think any amendment to the Constitution should be widely discussed and thoroughly understood."
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61st Year, No.92
CRC to Picket Sigma Nu's Greek Week Chariot Races
The Civil Rights Council voted last night to picket the Greek Week chariot races, and also to picket Sigma Nu fraternity on March 21, the date of the Interfraternity Council's rush weekend.
The proposal was put before the CRC by Elbert J. Rinkel, Scott City junior, who said: "The time has come to say that the conference table has failed and that action must be taken."
Steve S. Stotts, Prairie Village senior and acting president of the IFC, issued the following statement after the CRC meeting:
JOHN ELWELL, Wichita senior and Sigma Nu president, has said before that the fraternity has voted against the discriminatory clause maintained by its national chapter.
"THE IFC recognizes the Human Rights Committee of the All Student Council as the proper channel through which any positive student action in regard to the Sigma Nu's discriminatory clause must take place. The Sigma Nu's and the HRC have been working together in a positive manner in regard to this issue."
Rinkel said, when talking about the conference table, that he was referring to what he felt was a negative response by the IFC to a CRC petition asking that the IFC withdraw recognition from Sigma Nu because of its discriminatory clause. The petition was presented to the IFC executive council two weeks ago.
Carl S. Long, Mission senior and a member of the CRC said, "If Sigma Nu really wanted to remove their discriminatory clause, they could disengage their chapter from the National chapter."
Elwell used the following analogy to describe the situation: "Because a person disagrees with a part of the U.S. Constitution (say prohibition in the past), does he give up his citizenship as the only alternative or does he do everything within his power to rectify the situation? Presently I feel that Sigma Nu local is doing everything within its power to rectify the situation."
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George Ragsdale, Lawrence senior and president of the CRC, said that
Sigma Nu representatives had been invited to the meeting last night to discuss the issue, but had declined the invitation.
Elwell said that the invitation was declined because he felt that Sigma Nu would be forced to "defend an undefendable position." Elwell said he could not defend the clause, but could only defend Sigma Nu's attempts to get rid of the clause.
ARTHUR W. Douville, Jr., Overland Park sophomore and acting chairman of the HRC, issued the following statement last night in regard to the action taken by the CRC: "The HRC and the IFC have worked together to reach a policy
vis-a-vis Sigma Nu chapter, a policy consistent with the human rights declaration passed last semester by the ASC."
Douville said the bill states that the HRC will work with fraternities toward the removal of discriminatory clauses. He said that the HRC will issue a statement very soon concerning Sigma Nu's discriminatory clause.
In other actions, the CRC formed a civil rights co-ordinating committee to correspond with civil rights organizations on other campuses, and voted to distribute pamphlets outlining the CRC's position in regard to fraternities and sororities.
Fall Scholarship Reports Released to Living Groups
"S" day for all living group scholarship chairmen has arrived.
Freshman women lead the freshman men, 1.3 to 1.06, with the freshman average being 1.18. No 'G2 freshman averages are available for comparison.
Those areas which raised their grade point averages are: women's, 1.57 to 1.60; women's scholarship hall, 2.04 to 2.11; women's residence hall, 1.34 to 1.39; men's scholarship hall, 1.90 to 1.93; and men's residence hall, 1.18 to 1.20.
All of the men's scholarship halls are also above the university's and men's (1.32) averages. Pearson heads the list with a 2.00, followed by Foster, 1.96; Battenfeld, 1.92; Stephenson, 1.90 and Joliffe, 1.88.
The fall scholarship reports released from the Dean of Students' office show slight improvement in all areas except the men's average, with a drop from fall '62 of 1.34 to 1.32, sororities', 1.83 to 1.79, and fraternities', 1.42 to 1.41.
MILLER HALL leads all living groups with a 2.21. Other women's scholarship hall averages are:Douthart, 2.14; Sellards, 2.06; and Wetkins, 2.03. All these halls are above the women's 1.60 and the university's 1.43.
THE UNIVERSITY average of 1.43 is the only average which remained constant.
In the women's residence halls only Carruth-O'Leary which houses senior women, cleared the women's and university's averages with a 1.71. Other ranking halls are: Gertrude Sellards Pearson, freshmen,
1.42; Hashinger, 1.41; Lewis, 1.38;
Corbin, freshmen, 1.34 and Grace
Pearson, freshmen, 1.33.
ALL THE MEN'S residence halls were below the university's and men's averages. Templin was the only one to place above the men's residence hall (1.20) with a 1.22. J. R. Pearson had a 1.20, Ellsworth, 1.06, Oread, 76.
In the sorority district all houses placed above the women's and university's averages, Pi Beta Phi is first with a 1.96, then Kappa Alpha Theta, 1.92; Chi Omega, 1.85; Gamma Phi Beta, 1.83; Alpha Chi Omega, 1.82; Delta Delta Deltae, 1.79; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 1.77; Alpha Delta Pii, 1.73; Alpha Micron Pii, 1.70; Alpha Phi, 1.70; Delta Gamma, 1.70, and Sigma Kappa, 1.65.
Beta Theta Pi again led the fraternities with a 1.99. Other fraternity averages are: Delta Tau Delta, 1.80; Delta Upsilon, 1.77; Phi Delta Theta, 1.64; Alpha Tau Omega, 1.63; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1.56; Alpha Kappa Lambda, 1.53; Sigma Chi, 1.52; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1.49; Kappa Sigma, 1.46.
Phi Kappa Psi, 1.40; Triangle, 1.37;
Sigma Kappa Epsilon, 1.35; Phi Gamma
Delta, 1.34; Delta Chi, 1.33; Sig-
ma Nu, 1.31; Acacia, 1.27; Phi Kappa
Theta, 1.26; Theta Chi, 1.21;
Lambda Chi Alpha, 1.10; Phi Kappa
Tau, 1.10; Theta Tau, 1.05; Delta
Sigma Phi, 98; Tau Kappa Epsilon,
95; Phi Kappa Sigma, 93; Kappa
Alpha Psi, 83; and Alpha Phi
Alpha, 77.
U.S. Seeks End to Arms Race; Reveals Own Missile Pile Up
GENEVA — (UPI)— The United States, making a new appeal for an end to the "vicious circle of the arms race," disclosed today it has more than tripled its missile strength in the past two years.
The 200 per cent increase was disclosed by U.S. presidential envoy William C. Foster in a speech to the 17-nation disarmament conference. He also said that at the planned production rate the American strategic missile inventories by 1965 will be 750 per cent greater than when the conference began in March 1962.
FOSTER NOTED THAT Soviet missiles also will be increasing, and called on Moscow to join Washington in stopping the upward arms spiral.
The first and basic task, he said, is to search for areas of mutual interest.
The speech was Foster's last to the conference before, he returns to Washington this afternoon to report to President Johnson on the
status of the talks. Foster is director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
FOSTER SAID PRESIDENT Johnson's proposals for a freeze on missile production and halting the production of fissionable materials for nuclear weapons "are of particular importance."
"We believe they could well lead to agreements of mutual interest in the immediate future," he said.
"THE UNITED STATES cannot forego its plans for further increases in strategic armaments unless it is reasonably sure that the Soviet Union is giving up its own plans," Foster said.
Foster stressed, however, that an East-West missile freeze would have to be verified. He said a plant-by-plant shutdown of fissionable materials production "offers the Soviet Union a real opportunity to experiment with a very limited amount of inspection," he said. The Russians have opposed any kind of disarmament inspections.
He said both steps could be taken now "in the light of existing military and political realities." He said they would reduce military budgets as Moscow desires and "are promising areas for early agreement,"
Foster said he and Soviet Ambassador Semyon K. Tsarapkin have been unable to agree on an agenda. The United States and Russia are conference co-chairmen.
TSARAPKIN SAID Moscow wants discussion first of worldwide military budget reductions. This is rejected by the United States because it does not want to be tied down to a set military expenditure in a time of international tensions.
Regarding the U.S. idea of a freeze on the production of nuclear delivery missiles and planes, the Russians claim it is too complicated and would take years to negotiate. Western experts believe the Soviet stand actually is due to the fact that the United States has more missiles than Russia.